Casket gets knocked over at Bay Area funeral where massive family fight breaks out.Horoscope for Wednesday, 8/10/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Turning north, we passed the visitor center, which apparently features exhibits on the geology, ecology and prehistory of the park.Įlephant Rock in Valley of Fire State Park is a popular spot for photos. We blew by the Seven Sisters, a group of eroded, lumpy rock towers where smarter travelers stop to eat a picnic lunch. There was no time for Elephant Rock, the pachyderm-shaped natural arch that would have been a great photo op. I snapped a faraway, terrible photo and we kept driving. Normally, we would have pulled over and observed them for a while, but our flight was in four hours, and the Vegas airport is wild. We lucked out almost immediately, though, spotting two bighorn sheep standing atop a ruddy hill near the entrance. There was no one to point out any of the highlights, for example, the ancient petrified trees, the slot canyons or the 2,000-year-old petroglyphs carved into the sandstone by native Puebloans. Sumiko Scott/Getty ImagesĪs we drove in, we tried to pay the $10 fee at an entrance kiosk, but it was broken. Puebloans carved petroglyphs into the sandstone at what is now Valley of Fire State Park. Wind and water did their worst over millennia, putting the finishing touches on this terrain.Ī young bighorn sheep ram stands at the top of an outcropping in Valley of Fire State Park. Layers of sediment formed over the dunes and mixed with the groundwater, and the results were cemented into the sandstone. It would have given us a helpful explanation for the 46,000-acre park: millions of years ago, the valley was submerged under the sea, which eventually receded and left behind mudflats, slow-moving streams and finally, a vast sand dune desert. We had 30 minutes in the park, and that was nowhere near sufficient.īecause the visit was a last-minute detour, we hadn’t even read the park literature. Instead, we were squeezing it in on the way back from Zion National Park to the Harry Reid International Airport. Had we known that following Highway 169 into the park would be like rolling up into a terrifying other dimension, we could have planned for that. There was just one thing about this park that really upset me: Why didn’t someone tell us to spend more time here? The place isn’t exactly off-the-radar, but this was our fourth trip to Las Vegas in six months, and not a single person had encouraged us to visit Valley of Fire, about 43 miles from Sin City. Valley of Fire State Park is a fascinating hellscape near Las Vegas. The scenery in Valley of Fire was like nowhere else we’d ever been, and the blistering inferno part was only the beginning. They were disturbing, for sure, but there was an undeniable horror movie-style appeal, and we couldn’t look away. For the next several minutes, we stared out the window at the warped crimson mountains.
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